Ah I see your point. Machines were more fun to play back then. Obviously if its the winning money argument I'm sure Stevie Wonder preferred 'I Just Call to Say I Love You' to 'Supersitition' from a financial point of view.
And Eleanor Rigby was the 'B' side to 'Yellow Submarine', so that argument doesn't hold water either...........
How old is everyone?!
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QuizMaster
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[quote="grecian"]I'd also say that very often on the old Maygay terminals they wouldn't be paying either the £5 or £20 jackpots (that was certainly the case in Oxford at the time)]
To this day I never really play any machine intensively in that it is rare I will go back somewhere sooner than two weeks after having been there, and that has always been the case really. This, plus the fact I am prepared to travel, means that I can cover a wider range of machines and so with say Guinness Book of Records each machine would be given plenty of time to recover.
Oxford is like many university towns in that there are lots of keen players with plenty of free time on their hands, and in Oxford most of them live no more than 10 minutes' walk from any pub. They were probably enough to keep any machine in tight mode. One of the 'quiz gods' also used to play the machines in Oxford very intensively in those days as well - he seemed to be out 3 or 4 days a week, although I haven't seem him playing for a few years. I wouldn't have said he was that good (at machines if not other quizzes) but he would certainly have scooped up much of the easy money.
To this day I never really play any machine intensively in that it is rare I will go back somewhere sooner than two weeks after having been there, and that has always been the case really. This, plus the fact I am prepared to travel, means that I can cover a wider range of machines and so with say Guinness Book of Records each machine would be given plenty of time to recover.
Oxford is like many university towns in that there are lots of keen players with plenty of free time on their hands, and in Oxford most of them live no more than 10 minutes' walk from any pub. They were probably enough to keep any machine in tight mode. One of the 'quiz gods' also used to play the machines in Oxford very intensively in those days as well - he seemed to be out 3 or 4 days a week, although I haven't seem him playing for a few years. I wouldn't have said he was that good (at machines if not other quizzes) but he would certainly have scooped up much of the easy money.
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I'm 38 and have only ever won the jackpot on "Give us a Break" back in the days of yore. I won it twice in quick succession at my local only for it to be removed the day after the second occasion... which was a pity as I'd memorised a lot of the questions by then! I didn't know anywhere else in town which had the machine then.
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I'm 18, hit my first JP with invincibility on DOND after watching my friend empty his wallet in there. Second was invincibility on the super gay Wheel of Wealth, same conditions. 
Only two JP's i've every properly hit. Shared a DOND MS with a friend aswell, but I prefer the excitement of a "Go all the way".
Only two JP's i've every properly hit. Shared a DOND MS with a friend aswell, but I prefer the excitement of a "Go all the way".
I suspect you're talking fruitie JPs there Spyz; wash your mouth out! Only joking - welcome to the forum, but do note that in this bit of the forum we bore each other senseless about SWP machines (i.e. quiz machines and other skill based machines such as Word Up). Head next door to be bored senseless about AWPs!
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Matt Vinyl
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christ i hardly know where to start on this thread but here goes!
well firstly i'm 34 and can be recognised in glasgow because there's a 43% chance i'll be wearing a sparklehorse t-shirt!
i reckon my first jackpot was probably on give us a break(£10) as i just missed the first wave of machines.
for the next 10 years or so there were many times when i thought the era of jackpottable machines had come to an end but thankfully each time i was proved wrong.for every stinker - say treasure quest - a little gem would appear - beat the clock for example.
as has been explained many times the majority of old standalones would have a very progressive pay-out mechanism and with a little bit of experience it would be easy to recognise when to play and when to walk away.
Now if you'd just travelled x miles by car to go and play one game and it was fucked then that could be a pretty annoying journey and would lead to the argument that to have 20 different games on the one machine would certainly be a good thing.
however a cold look at the financial reality tells a very different tale.
my last jackpot was about a month ago on caveman capers and i could hardly believe it.similarly i got 4 £10's from dond yesterday (amazing what a small journey outside the big city can behold!) and would consider this my most profitable day for some time, since the more or less disappearance of good old dr fox.
comparing this with days of yore shows how bad things are now.
i spent about 6 years playing professionally and made c.£15000 a year playing about 2 or 3 days a week and spent the rest of the week mailnly drinking it.
i realise i could have done better but i was young and those were happy times!
as far as jackpots go to me they were the norm.that would be the only goal in playing a machine.imagine adopting that attitude now.
i remember playing a beat the clock that really wasn't ready to pay out and feeling stubborn and well off i decided on a little experiment to see how much it would take for it to jp again.
i got there after a few pints, a lot of sweat and about £75 but it was a valuable lesson for me in being able to detect the first signs of paying out on this machine generally.
imagine a similar experiment with most machines now!!!! anybody care to force a jackpot from monopoly deluxe or even better monster cash.thought not.
right in conclusion- old times good.nowadays much more of a struggle.too many machines with only a fanciful notion of paying out more than about £4 and a few that wouldn't dream of parting with such princely sums.
i don't want to take over from moaner in chief but he knows where i'm coming from.
well firstly i'm 34 and can be recognised in glasgow because there's a 43% chance i'll be wearing a sparklehorse t-shirt!
i reckon my first jackpot was probably on give us a break(£10) as i just missed the first wave of machines.
for the next 10 years or so there were many times when i thought the era of jackpottable machines had come to an end but thankfully each time i was proved wrong.for every stinker - say treasure quest - a little gem would appear - beat the clock for example.
as has been explained many times the majority of old standalones would have a very progressive pay-out mechanism and with a little bit of experience it would be easy to recognise when to play and when to walk away.
Now if you'd just travelled x miles by car to go and play one game and it was fucked then that could be a pretty annoying journey and would lead to the argument that to have 20 different games on the one machine would certainly be a good thing.
however a cold look at the financial reality tells a very different tale.
my last jackpot was about a month ago on caveman capers and i could hardly believe it.similarly i got 4 £10's from dond yesterday (amazing what a small journey outside the big city can behold!) and would consider this my most profitable day for some time, since the more or less disappearance of good old dr fox.
comparing this with days of yore shows how bad things are now.
i spent about 6 years playing professionally and made c.£15000 a year playing about 2 or 3 days a week and spent the rest of the week mailnly drinking it.
i realise i could have done better but i was young and those were happy times!
as far as jackpots go to me they were the norm.that would be the only goal in playing a machine.imagine adopting that attitude now.
i remember playing a beat the clock that really wasn't ready to pay out and feeling stubborn and well off i decided on a little experiment to see how much it would take for it to jp again.
i got there after a few pints, a lot of sweat and about £75 but it was a valuable lesson for me in being able to detect the first signs of paying out on this machine generally.
imagine a similar experiment with most machines now!!!! anybody care to force a jackpot from monopoly deluxe or even better monster cash.thought not.
right in conclusion- old times good.nowadays much more of a struggle.too many machines with only a fanciful notion of paying out more than about £4 and a few that wouldn't dream of parting with such princely sums.
i don't want to take over from moaner in chief but he knows where i'm coming from.
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Without wanting to argue for the sake of it, which I clearly love doing with the 'moaner in chief', I'll posit a question to you Foxy, which I believe underlines why we'll never the see likes of Beat the Clocks et al again.
You said you put £75 through a Beat the Clock which wasn't really in the mood to pay out and got there eventually.
Would you have done this if there had been a Beat the Clock in the pub next door which was in a better mood? Or over the road?. Or let's face it, a choice of 20 Beat the Clocks in the town centre to choose from?
You said you put £75 through a Beat the Clock which wasn't really in the mood to pay out and got there eventually.
Would you have done this if there had been a Beat the Clock in the pub next door which was in a better mood? Or over the road?. Or let's face it, a choice of 20 Beat the Clocks in the town centre to choose from?
Stupid punters. Telly all the week, screw the wife Saturday
I dont see the problem with Foxy. I have gone out of my way to spoil games in order to make an area as unprofitable as possible for a fellow pro who may follow in my wake. The game is timing , to control the machines to your advantage. But I dont rub their nose in it by putting up my name on high scores( pet hate!)